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merciless

[mur-si-lis] / ˈmɜr sɪ lɪs /


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Merciless tyrants do sometimes rise to the top in a chimpanzee community, but the more typical alphas that I have known were quite the opposite.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2019

Brogan: You look like you’re ready to fight Ming the Merciless.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2018

Merciless toward its characters as well as the audience, "The Graduate" plays on a new viewing like a subversive, anti-romantic film best categorized as a bleak parody of the happily-ever-after genre.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2017

Flash Gordon has Jones in the title role as an American football player who is transported from Earth to an alien world where he battles the forces of Ming the Merciless.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2013

Each screen in the grid above me shows a different part of the city: the Merciless Mart, the lobby of Erudite headquarters, Millennium Park, the pavilion outside the Hancock building.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth




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